Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-07-06
HAIR on AND HAIR DYE.
Few Men Use Them Nowadays-Gray
Hair Rather Fashionable.


Hair Rather Fashionable.
Every few men want oil on their hair
nowadays, 4, said q barber to = reporter.
"a few years ago the man who didn' t use
hair oil was the exception; now the man
who does use it IS the exception or
course we are glad Of the change in taste,
for it is money in our pockets. Five years
ago had to have fresh supply of oil
twice week; now the same quantity win
last me month 4
HHow about dyeing the hair and
beardsr the reporter asked
There has been greater falling OF In
the use Of dye than in the use of hair oil, e
the barber continued. "a few years ago
there was q large class Of gay old fellows
who dyed their hair and whiskers almost
as regularly as they shaved. Most Of
these men were more or less inclined to
be sports or beaus, and always wanted to
look..as young as possible. Others, how
ever, were respectable and steady going
citizens and business men, who gave in to
their vanity enough to want to keep look
ing young. There was large class Of
out and out gamblers and sharpers, who
seemed to have an idea it was out Of keep
ing with their profession to have anything
but jet black whiskers and mustaches.
So that nearly all gamblers or sports
who had red or sandy hair on their face,
or on their head, for that matter, used to
have it dyed regularly as black as they
could get it. A few Of these are still
around town. It's easy enough to tell
them, because their eyebrows don match
the rest of the hair on their face. !"
$50 you don't have much use for hair
dye noWadays?'' the reporter Intercepted.
to keep up the flow of tonsorial reminis-
cences and reflections, which, contrary to
the traditions of the craft, seemed to show
signs of drying up.
tsNo, indeed. When man comes
along now and asks to have his mustache
or hair dyed, he usually catches us unpre-
pared, and if we hove any dye on hand bit
all it generally takes good while to hunt
ii up and get the bottle busted off. ]
think we have only one regular customer
in that line now, and he isn't an old man,
either. Hoais young fellow, whose hair
Is black, or nearly black, while his eye
brows and beard are sandy. He has his
whiskers and eyebrows dyed to match his
hair, regularly twice d monk.
But young men don't seem to care
nowadays if their hair and beard are gray.
| II, fact, they seem toibe' rather proud Of
III When they really begin To grow old
hat is, when they get within h few laps
of 50-they get sensitive about it, how
ever, and if they arc not bald frequently
| Inquire as to the means for preventing
Ene hair from turning gray, etc.
ssOh, yes, great many men use cos
metic on their nanstaches, 7 the barber
continued, ii response To a suggestion.
I'm fact, there are very few who don't
| 1se III. Some time Gg nIcst men wouldn't
| let "a barber put any powder on their faces
1 after shaving. Now nearly, oil ask for it.
It's laughable how particular some lner
I are about their hair. No matter how
much care the barber takes about comb
I ing and brushing it they are never salts
! fed, but always insist on taking the
comb and brush themselves and arrang
ing it just so, with every hair lying in {
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